Anne Kazak

..To present a pediatric psychology consultation treatment framework based on family systems and developmental theories...

..These clinically meaningful patterns reveal that a majority of families had at least one parent with moderate to severe PTS, which supports development of family-based interventions for this population...

..To report initial feasibility and outcome from a pilot study of a new three-session intervention for caregivers of children newly diagnosed with cancer, Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program-Newly Diagnosed (SCCIP-ND)...

..Family systems interventions in pediatric oncology are reviewed, with a focus on reducing pediatric medical traumatic stress (PMTS) across members of the family...

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..Implications of broadly implemented screening for all patients across treatment settings are discussed...

..Experience with the ITR-2.0 and recent changes in treatment protocols indicated the need for a minor revision and revalidation...

..Beliefs about health may be identified and targeted for intervention to improve quality of life, particularly when patient perceptions of current health problems are considered...

..To guide assessment and intervention for patients and families, a model for assessing and treating pediatric medical traumatic stress (PMTS) is presented that integrates the literature across pediatric conditions...

..In this study we investigated the presence of PTSS in parents of children currently in treatment and their association with treatment intensity and length of time since diagnosis...

..Examples of evidence-based interventional approaches relevant to families of young children with cancer are presented...

..To summarize existing empirical reports of psychological interventions for children with cancer and their families and to outline directions for future work...

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..To investigate the feasibility of integrating an evidence-based screening tool of psychosocial risk in pediatric cancer care at diagnosis...

..To describe rates and concordance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in adolescent childhood cancer survivors and their mothers and fathers...

..Research to advance the development and application of standards of care during treatment is also advocated. The chapter concludes with opportunities for family-oriented research related to survivorship and end-of-life care...

..The goal of this study was to develop a reliable and valid method for assessing the cancer-related beliefs of parents with a child in treatment for cancer...

..The data are supportive of brief interventions to reduce PTSS in this population and provide additional support for the importance of intervention for multiple members of the family...

..The current study evaluated stability and predictive validity of PAT psychosocial risk classification with regard to distress, family functioning, and the use of psychosocial services over the first 4 months of treatment...

..To report acceptability, feasibility, and outcome data from a randomized clinical trial (RCT) of a brief intervention for caregivers of children newly diagnosed with cancer...

..Despite associations between stress and immune function in animal and human models, the immune function in caregivers of children at the time of a child-related potentially traumatic event, like cancer, is not known...

..Purpose Psychometric properties of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool 2.0 (PAT2.0), a brief screener for psychosocial risk in families of children with cancer, are presented...

..To describe posttraumatic growth (PTG) following childhood cancer survival and its association with demographic and disease/treatment variables, perceived treatment severity and life threat, and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS)...

..There is strong support from these data for continued attention to supporting parents both during and after a child's PICU admission...

..Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and subclinical symptoms of acute stress (SAS) may be a useful framework for understanding the psychological reactions of mothers and fathers of children newly diagnosed with a pediatric malignancy...

..To explore whether prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease is associated with lower levels of parental distress and greater satisfaction with decisions about cardiothoracic surgery when compared to postnatal diagnosis...

..It is unknown how their self-reported health problems differ from those of healthy young adults. Self-reported health problems of cancer survivors and healthy controls are compared in this study...

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..Additional study aims were to examine concordance among family and staff reports of psychosocial risk, changes in risk status over time, and to predict the use of psychosocial resources during the first months of treatment...

..To investigate whether adolescent siblings of childhood cancer survivors experience posttraumatic stress (PTS)...

..To evaluate prospectively the cognitive functioning and to obtain ratings of cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning for children receiving stem cell transplantation (SCT)...

..Rates of adolescent self-reported anxiety and depression are low, although oncologists perceived more patient distress. This is an area for future investigation...

..This study provides evidence that family functioning is related to cancer-related posttraumatic reactions in adolescent survivors...

..It would also be important to evaluate the benefits of a concurrent psychological intervention with medication...

..To examine the chronic illness literature and evaluate the impact on single parenting and children and adolescents with chronic illness...

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..To assess associations of the number of parent stressors and parent-perceived stress with obesity and related behaviors in their children...

..This study explored what patient, family, provider, and system factors are associated with high continuity of both total and well-child care...

..To develop and validate a method of classifying the intensity of pediatric oncology treatments using four operationally defined categories of treatment intensity...

..The purpose of this multicenter study was to confirm the validity and reliability of the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory (PCQLI)...

..Long-term clinical significance remains unproven. Further work is needed to improve effect sizes and treatment compliance and to address the needs of other populations with pediatric brain injury...

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..If effective, SCCIP-R would provide evidence for the feasibility and importance of providing systemic intervention with families of patients with cancer. ..

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..By reliably identifying families with varying levels of risk at diagnosis we may develop subsequent interventions which match their level of need over the course of treatment. ..

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